We are a family of 6 trying to live a self sustaining life. My husband and I both grew up in fast paced city lives. When we started our family we decided we didn't want our kids to have that same life style. So we moved to the country, to a town of 500 people surrounded by forest!
We are taking...
Here is the chicken tractor I built out of scraps! The only thing I bought new was the chicken wire. I did buy the hinges and wheels at yard sales. Everything else we had lying around. I didn't even have to buy nails or screws because we had some left over from another project.
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I have a hen that's been broody for a week now. There's no rooster with her, so no fertile eggs. But what I was wondering is, is it too late to put some fertile eggs under her? Or will she stop sitting on them the last week because she's already been sitting for a week on infertile eggs. I hope...
Your right 50% is good for shipped eggs
The 'elephant chicks' were very deformed (only one eye and it was huge, crossed beak, twisted neck).
My incubator was really steady except for one day in the beginning it got up to 102 for about 1/2 an hour before I quickly adjusted it. I didn't think...
I'm very new to Quail...
Two weeks ago I hatched my first group of Coturnix Quail in my homemade incubator! Very fun and exciting!
I bought 40 eggs from an ebay seller. He sent me 4 different color variations claiming they were all breed in seperate cages. I was probably nieve(SP?) but I thought...
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My god, that would cost a small fortune!!!!
I asked because I have a bottle that isn't being used for anything. I bought it a while ago, so I wasn't thinking about the price just thinking about ways to use it up.